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Powerful forward motion

Timothy Bulone

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July 21st, 2014 - 11:18 PM

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Powerful forward motion

It was my older brother who taught me to ride a bike. Perched tenuously atop a bike, he had me start at the curb in front of our house, one foot down on the curb for balance. He suggested I push myself along the length of a few houses to get a feel for the motion of riding a bike. Then, once I became comfortable with pushing fast enough, for a few brief moments, I would be coasting along a few inches from the curb. After a while it became easy to balance the moving bike, each time straying farther and farther from the curb, and allowing my feet to rest on the pedals. Suddenly came the command "Pedal!" and before I knew it I was the source of this powerful forward motion and I was free of the curb, free to ride anywhere, anywhere I chose.

The lesson of learning to ride a bicycle was a valuable one. It taught me that I could gently approach some new task until my own confidence allowed me to proceed with some new thing. In these days when the challenges of life seem to be clumped together a little too closely, I have to remember to be gentle with myself, to move forward in my own time, to check in with myself to see when I am ready for the next step. The command to "Pedal!" is my own now, it comes from deep within me and makes failure impossible, even if the results are not what was expected. But the real result is the same I longed for in my bicycle days. Having given myself the power to proceed where I had never been before I find exhilaration and behind that, freedom.

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